Blacktop Psalms

Verse 1

Midnight bleeding through a cracked windshield

Hands on the wheel, yeah I numb what I feel

Ashes fall like broken snow

Every mile just lets me know

Pre-Chorus

I don’t run, I just don’t stay

Some ghosts ride shotgun anyway

Chorus

I pray in smoke and gasoline

Sing my sins through a six-string scream

This road don’t care where I’ve been

It just keeps taking skin

Yeah, I talk to God in a barroom hymn

On a blacktop night where the lights grow dim

Verse 2

Mama said “boy, you’re losing your way”

I said “I lost it back in ’98”

Cross around my neck, rust on my soul

Faith’s a dice game I can’t control

Pre-Chorus

I light another just to breathe

Truth hits harder than belief

Chorus

I pray in smoke and gasoline

Sing my sins through a six-string scream

This road don’t care where I’ve been

It just keeps taking skin

Yeah, I talk to God in a barroom hymn

On a blacktop night where the lights grow dim

Bridge (dark, half-time)

If heaven’s closed, I won’t knock twice

I’ve danced too long with the devil’s dice

If hell calls home, I know the way

I’ve been walking it every day

Guitar Solo

(Low, gritty slide into heavy, dragging riff)

Chorus (final – raw & loud)

I pray in smoke and gasoline

Bleed my truth through a broken string

No clean hands, no alibi

Just a restless heart and a loaded night

Yeah, I talk to God but I don’t pretend

I’m just another lost man riding till the end

Outro

Sunrise finds me still undone

Another war I never won

Just tire tracks, no guarantees

And a soul wrapped tight in nicotine